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Q&A What help pages need to be written?

As I write this answer to say that there's nothing I can think of, I see there's an option for me to pick the license I want to use for this post. Aside from the fact that the category and site def...

posted 4y ago by Mithrandir24601‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Mithrandir24601‭ · 2020-07-01T16:48:36Z (over 4 years ago)
As I write this answer ~~to say that there's nothing I can think of~~, I see there's an option for me to pick the license I want to use for this post.

Aside from the fact that the category and site defaults are CC BY-SA 4.0, I'm not really sure what these licenses are effectively *for* or what the actual differences are, so I would find it useful (or at least, interesting) to have a brief, simplified explanation of the differences and when/why you would use one over the other.